Winning Peace - Chapter 17
Added 2023-11-29 09:50:44 +0000 UTCOkay, various family members have headed back to their own homes and I am firmly recovered from Thanksgiving. Now I await the trial that will be Christmas.
In other news! Here's another chapter of Winning Peace, where Ezekiel does something impossible! He makes a friend! Amazing!
I'll be working on a quest update to have out late Thursday or early Friday in conjunction with the December Poll. Also an announcement or two with things I've been thinking about changing. But that's not right now.
In the meantime, I hope everyone enjoys!
Comments
I’m glad your moving him out of politics, it was interesting to read but it’s been skipping a bit much on actual detail of technological development while focusing too much on setting up a society
Matthew Robar
2023-12-01 00:10:39 +0000 UTCThanks :>
Collin
2023-11-30 13:55:46 +0000 UTChttps://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/semper-ad-meliora-code-geass-britannian-royalty-quest.55535/
Slayer Anderson
2023-11-30 13:53:29 +0000 UTCAnother interesting chapter. Would love to see more about Mars and his endless realization that it's only going to be more work going forward. <3 also can I get info on how to get started with Semper ad Meliora? Hard to find the start anywhere.
Collin
2023-11-30 13:28:25 +0000 UTCThe difference between an actual pedophile and a person who enjoys hentai or whatever is whether or not there is harm done in the pursuit of whatever form of enjoyment they are pursuing. If a hobby or fetish does not harm others, it’s acceptable. If it does, that’s where the line gets drawn. You don’t get to inflict injury onto other people (without meaningful consent) for your own sake.
Slayer Anderson
2023-11-29 21:10:54 +0000 UTCNo. Not a BDSM chest. This is like going over to a guys house. And he leaves his curated child pornography collection out on the dining table. But it's not 'real' children, it's just hyper realistic photos made by an AI. The guy should have gone to the authorities, not spread it around. And only spread it around as a last resort if the authorities do nothing. For the same reasons convicted sex offenders aren't allowed to hide their proclivities. "I would never do it to a real child" is exactly what pedophiles say. Not sure why the MC is extending a hand of friendship specifically to a pedophile, instead of ostensibly the dozen solid candidates in easy reach his AI could background check. Is it to create social drama?
Bob Saget
2023-11-29 20:21:57 +0000 UTCI actually could see MC founding Cerberus after he retires and sees people starting to mess things up after a while so he decides to actually start a shadow organisation of carefully chosen people who actually get what he’s trying to do.
Aeonstorm
2023-11-29 17:07:03 +0000 UTCI highly doubt Cerberus will be a thing. There would be watch lists to make sure nothing like the Last Dogs could happen again. Cerberus checks too many boxes on the similarity index. Plus the world is such a different place compared to canon so it is just not possible for that to happen. Humans will be much more united, plus they will be much more technologically and culturally advanced than canon so there is no need to push the idea of human supremacy when their technology speaks for itself.
Zerak
2023-11-29 15:14:12 +0000 UTCI mean, even if he did, a sex doll still isn't a person. It'd be extra creepy, but there are a lot of fetishes like that.
Slayer Anderson
2023-11-29 12:33:19 +0000 UTCSomething else to consider is how advanced will Cerberus become in the future, their ideology and no morals will produce some truly wondrous super-soldiers and prototype projects with all the ground-work our protagonist has done. You can make it as them having a shadow-war with the Last Dogs cabal or at least what's left of them(I am guessing they will change their ideology to something that instead directs how humanity develops so they can reap most of the benefits).
Foufa
2023-11-29 11:55:15 +0000 UTCThis is something not discussed in high-end settings like Eclipse Phase or Orion's Arm. My guess is that at that technological level when you can sleeve yourself into that type of body there is barely any moral push-back but it still is weird, this screams something weird that will happen maybe 20 to 100 years down the line. I want to see a different POV 30years down the line, how do people work with Ghost in the Shell cybernetics (which will probably be way different due to the myriad of other knowledge bases he has), the most exciting thing I can see the civilian sector putting out is AI and then later on ASI which will either end up becoming like the TITANS from Eclipse Phase or something that looks for higher consciousness like Orions Arm, this will effectively put them into a Singularity civilization since most of the technology needed for nanites, cybernetics and genetic modification are already released by our MC however they are either black-boxed or niche in their application and not really applied with the idea of making someone superior. I am guessing the finding of the Mars ruins will be done later down in time compared to the ME timeline due to the other pressing issues and the recovered data would be more due to the more advanced computation technology. This will trickle down to a later contact with aliens and a different all together situation. Personally I would've invested in some comic-book technologies just to satisfy my itch, something like the Nemesis Reloaded comic, the "protagonist" is actually an artificial being, how the background supervillians created such a ultra competent being is something I would like to know! Or The World (Weapon Plus) program which is essentially an artificial city that is aimed to induce artificial evolution, It's not something needed for this world but since he is retiring he might as well :P
Foufa
2023-11-29 11:48:17 +0000 UTCLol, this reminds me of all those people who make a stink about drawings like that or Hentai, and in the end those same people who make the stink end up being actual pedos. Like if no one is being hurt to each their own. As long as it’s not on the kitchen table since I’ll eat there.
Zerak
2023-11-29 11:38:41 +0000 UTCWell Ick, but Lopez has a point its a sex doll why the hell should other people know about it? If he had it programed to act like a child that's another thing entirely.
Luker number 5
2023-11-29 10:07:57 +0000 UTC
